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Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.
| Size | | Length: | 288 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[Anne] Tyler's middle-class Baltimore suburb is a multicultural melting pot, with a lot of those lumpy bits that won't quite break down however much you stir....Anne Tyler is the goddess of domestic fiction."
(05/01/2006)
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